Ever wondered how it would be to to have a 'sign in' button that would run away from the mouse pointer if the password you entered is wrong or to see multiple videos in a 3 D view all in the usual same old web browser, if anyone was under the delusion that such RIA s (Rich Internet Applications , those applications which exhibit Desktop application behavior ) are not possible to be viewed in a web browser then its time to think again.
Flex is a cross-platform open source development framework that allows you to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) which can be deployed in all leading web browsers and operating systems. Applications can be developed using Flex SDK. It is a component based tool used to develop applications that run using Flash Player or Adobe AIR(Adobe Integrated Runtime). It can be considered as a competitor to Ajax, JavaFX , Silverlight. It can be used to produce really cool applications with mind boggling effects.
In Feb 2008 the Flex 3 SDK was released. Flex 4 codenamed Gumbo in expected to be released in 2009.
See this sample that has come out http://flex.org/showcase/
Popular Misunderstandings : Flex is not a animation tool or server side language.
Tag based MXML acts as basis for Flex projects. MXML is a custom XML namespace looks like
More details and discussions on the topic will be posted later on.
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